EDGE YK Issue 7: April/May 2013

We can’t believe it, but this is our biggest issue yet! Thanks a tonne to everyone who helped make it happen.

There’s lots of great stuff inside, so click on photographer Pat Kane’s cover image to flip through it online or download a tablet-friendly PDF at the bottom of this page here.

Once again, we’re delivering the issue to every house in YK, and as always, you can also pick up a copy at more than two dozen great businesses around town.

EDGE YK Issue 6: Feb/Mar 2013

Click on Yellowknife artist Nick MacIntosh’s cover painting to read our newest issue online, or pick a copy up at our racks around town. Next week we’re also doing home delivery through Canada Post. That means every house in YK will receive a copy in their mailbox, free of charge.

Tablet readers can download a low-rez PDF here.

Who doesn’t love videos?

EDGE YK online
January 3, 2013

Thanks to Jay Bulckaert and Pablo Saravanja of the aRTLeSS Collective, EDGE YK magazine now has its very own promo vid. We’re hoping people all over YK, and well beyond, will check it out.

Like it? Share it to help spread the word about the mag, as well as how awesome YK is.

The Deh Cho Bridge: Making Connections

photo Jeroen Slagter — late-May 2012

On EDGE: Opinion
EDGE YK Online
December 4, 2012

by Jack Danylchuk

Everyone who has lived in the Territories has experienced a Mackenzie River Moment: elation when you arrived at the crossing just as the last truck rolled off the Merv Hardie, frustration if the ferry was just churning away.

Those moments are gone now that the Deh Cho Bridge is open, and Yellowknife is connected with the Rest of Canada, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

A jubilant crowd watched on the last bitterly cold day of November as Premier Bob McLeod cut the ceremonial ribbon with help from Dave Ramsay, once a hectoring critic of the project, but now that he’s the minister responsible for the bridge, a believer in the worth of former NWT premier Joe Handley’s legacy project.

Premier McLeod hailed the bridge as an achievement that will provide benefits for generations to come, a safe, secure crossing regardless of weather, or season. And it opened just in time for the peak winter travel period, Ramsay said, giving certainty to holiday-season travelers.

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EDGE YK Issue 5: Dec/Jan 2012

EDGE YK online
November 27, 2012

Well, it’s a week before our one-year anniversary. Tonnes of thanks to the contributors, readers and advertisers who helped make this happen. YK’s talent, passion and enthusiasm are truly amazing.

Click on YK artist Zhamil Bikbaev’s cover artwork to view the Dec/Jan issue online. Tablet readers can scroll down to the bottom of this site and pull down a PDF.

Right now, you can pick up the magazine at Javaroma, the Book Cellar, Le Stock Pot, the Smokehouse Cafe, Down to Earth Gallery, Weaver & Devore, Signed and the Co-op. Early next week, we’ll also be at one a growing number of YK businesses and locations, including:

• Adam Dental Clinic
• Black Knight Pub
• Buffalo Airways
• Bullocks Bistro
• Century 21/Greenway Realty
• Chasing Light Studio
• Coyote’s Steakhouse and Bar
• Dancing Moose Café
• The Diner
• Erasmus Apparel
• Gaia Integrative Clinic
• Gallery of the Midnight Sun
• Gourmet Cup
• Harley’s Shirt Shack
• Just Furs
• Kingpin Centre
• Le Stock Pot
• Lulu’z Market
• Northern Images
• Old Town Glassworks
• One of a Thai
• Originals by T-Bo
• Overlander Sports
• Quality Furniture
• Ragged Ass Barbers
• Super 8 Motel
• Sugar Baby Esthetics
• Sundog Yoga and Collective Soul Space
• Sushi North
• Taiga Yoga
• Thornton’s Wine & Tapas Room
• Yellowknife Airport
• Yellowknife Inn
• Yellowknife Inn Smoke Shop

Now cleared, Government Dock to be cleaned up

by Jack Danylchuk
EDGE YK online
September 26, 2012

In the end, all it took to clear the government dock of every car, truck, canoe, and floating home was a sheet of paper, legal-size, that two municipal enforcement officers tucked in or taped to any object that kept still for 10 minutes or more.

Drafted by the City’s legal advisors, it warned that any unauthorized property remaining on the dock after 3 p.m. on September 24, would be removed at the owners’ expense.

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YK Mayoral Candidates Speak

EDGE YK Online

We currently have three candidates running for mayor of YK on October 15: Tim Doyle, Paul Falvo and Mark Heyck. EDGE YK asked each candidate about a range of topics, some of which include: why they decided to run, the city’s future, and whether YK receives the respect it deserves from the territorial government. As promised in our Fall Issue, here are the interviews.

Tim Doyle

EDGE YK: What got you into politics?

Tim Doyle: Politics has been a life-long passion; I did study political science in addition to commerce when I was at St. Mary’s University in Halifax.

EYK: Did you have any prior involvement, before running for mayor?

TD: In addition to my duties as executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, where I have to meet and work with politicians at all levels of government, I’ve helped run leadership campaigns in other provinces; I’ve helped run city council and MLA campaigns and federal candidate campaigns, so I do have a fair amount of experience. In Yellowknife, I’ve helped out in federal campaigns six or seven years ago, but I’ve been a little quiet due to job duties.

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Summer’s over: the EDGE YK Fall Issue is here

Check it out by clicking Pablo Saravanja’s cover image above. If you’re a tablet reader, you can view or download a low-rez PDF here.

Or pick up a copy, starting Wednesday, at any of these great businesses, to name a few:

- Black Knight Pub
- Bullock’s Bistro
- Dancing Moose Cafe
- Down to Earth Gallery
- Erasmus Apparel
- Gallery of the Midnight Sun
- Gourmet Cup
- Javaroma
- Le Stock Pot
- Northern Images
- Overlander Sports
- Signed
- Smokehouse Cafe
- Thornton’s Wine & Tapas Room
- Weaver & Devore
- Yellowknife Book Cellar
- Yellowknife Co-op

City negotiates long-term lease on Government Dock

by Jack Danylchuk
EDGE online

The City of Yellowknife is taking control of a key piece of its long-term plan to transform the government dock in Old Town from a crowded junkyard to a showplace, but a waterfront property owner and longtime resident have reservations.

The City announced Friday it has negotiated a long-term lease for the dock with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Mayor Gordon Van Tighem called it a “win-win for DFO, the city and our residents.”

The lease gives the city a strategic node for public waterfront access, and provides DFO with assurance the site will be locally maintained and administered, Van Tighem said. As part of the lease arrangement, DFO will complete environmental remediation of the dock before the city takes over.

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